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Topic: The Leaning Stilton of Eccles (Read 3355 times)

Well I have been lurking around here for a while. For ages I have been banging on about wanting to make a stilton cheese to go with my 20 yr old bottle of elderberry port I have. So on monday I took the plunge

Hi Gray, I'm assuming from your use of the word "squidgy" that you are from Manchester, England? Am I correct? We have lots of Manchesters in the US also. I tried some elderberry wine that was made during US prohibition in 1926. It was 1979 that I found it so quite aged. It was in a hidden (illegal) wine cellar in the basement of a house I rented a room in when I was 19 or 20. (I'm NOT doing math before I've even had my tea!). The wine was very smooth and lovely. Some of the apple wine also discovered was more like high proof turpentine.

I had found the wine cellar during a bit of plumbing repair I was doing. Tracing the pipes in the basement looking for a shutoff I realized there was a concealed room when the pipes I was tracing disappeared from view. Kind of a neat adventure!

My elderberry port was made 20 yrs ago and I have never got round to drinking it, all noticeable events and birthday have passed me by for a few years at least.

Apple wine can be nice but IMHO it is best made into cider.

Great story about the wine, perhaps I should just leave mine somewhere for someone to find one day.

However my main brewing activities are mainly beer related including Elderberry Stout, which at 8.5% is definitely a supping beer. I usually frequent Thehomebrewforum.co.uk, but my midlife crisis and quest for culinary delights has made me venture further afield.

Leaning or not you're right, it looks like cheese! I'm pleased you got it back into the form. I'm planning to try my first stilton soon.

I think squidgy is a UK colloquial term rather than purely Mancunian because I heard it a lot in Cambridge, but I've learned a lot of Mancs terms over the years. My husband is from Sale and has exported words like "oos" (us) and "stoof" all over the world.

The elderberry port sounds fabulous. I used to try my hand at elderberry wine and champagne while in the UK but had to leave it all with a friend when I moved, along with the bumper crop of sloe gin and vodka-soaked morello cherries. That took some willpower.